vCenter Log Insight 1.5 gets tighter integration with VCOPS and it's optimized for VMware environments with built-in knowledge and native support for vSphere. You have probably read about newly announced VCOP 5.8, but if not check it out.

vCenter Log insights offers new caching queries which results lower CPU utilization and consumes less IOPS. On the image below you can see the new version.

Benefits:

Reduces troubleshooting times and simplify security and compliance management

You can edit content packs – now it's possible to import it into your user space > edit > export then with the changes.

Updating fields – if you saves an extracted field, which is a way of adding structure to your unstructured events, you use that extracted field in a query. This query can be saved to the dashboard. You can export it as a part of a content pack. By changing definition of an extracted field you can update any pre-existing dashboards or saved queries that used the extracted field.

Query Widgets – from the UI can be used too, in addition to charts widgets.

Drag and drop – content on the dashboard can be rearranged with drag-and-drop.

Content packs are also provided by partners from Solution exchange:

Administration:

Better monitoring – new and better system monitor page

Upgrades from UI – new appliance page

Active directory support – user and group access control

Configure ESXi from UI – now part of vSphere integration. Configure ESXi script (available from UI) – utility to configure ESXi to send the logs from ESXi and vCenter to the vCenter log insight.

Other enhancements:

Unique cont function – number of devices which sent logs to the log insight

Performance improvements – caching, which requires less CPU and IOPS

vSphere content pack is better with – revamped

The initial configuration and administration of the appliance as well as upgrades are now done only from the UI, where previous version needed some CLI configuration first.

The Integration to AD is done through the administrative section as well.

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